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1. Clinical, Epidemiologic, and Laboratory Aspects of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections

Elizabeth Palavecino

2. Community-Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Case Studies

Madeleine G. Sowash and Anne-Catrin Uhlemann

3. Rapid Methods for Detection of MRSA in Clinical Specimens

Elizabeth Palavecino

4. Immunofluorescence Microscopy for the Detection of Surface Antigens in Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

Yekaterina Timofeyeva, Ingrid L. Scully, and Annaliesa S. Anderson

5. Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS)-PCR Identification of MRSA

Shin-ichi Fujita

6. Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Typing of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates

Yiping He, Yanping Xie, and Sue Reed

7. Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) of Staphylococcus aureus

Nicholas A. Saunders and Anne Holmes

8. Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec) Analysis of MRSA

Teruyo Ito, Kyoko Kuwahara, Yuki Katayama, Yuki Uehara, Xiao Han, Yoko Kondo, and Keiichi Hiramatsu

9. Genetic Interruption of Target Genes for Investigation of Virulence Factors

Adhar C. Manna

10. Molecular Analysis of Staphylococcal Superantigens

Wilmara Salgado-Pab n, Laura C. Case-Cook, and Patrick M. Schlievert

11. Investigation of Staphylococcus aureus Adhesion and Invasion of Host Cells

Junshu Yang and Yinduo Ji

12. Investigation of Biofilm Formation in Clinical Isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

James E. Cassat, Mark S. Smeltzer, and Chia Y. Lee

13. Transcriptomic Analysis of Staphylococcus aureus Using Microarray and Advanced Next-Generation RNA-seq Technologies

Ting Lei, Aaron Becker, and Yinduo Ji

14. Proteomic Approach to Investigate Pathogenicity and Metabolism of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Patrice Fran ois, Alexander Scherl, Denis Hochstrasser, and Jacques Schrenzel

15. Metobolomic Investigation of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Ting Lei, Lei Wang, Chi Chen, and Yinduo Ji

16. Treatment of Infections Due to Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Gregory M. Anstead, Jose Cadena, and Heta Javeri

17. Anti-Infective Drug Development for MRSA

Anu Daniel

18. Animal Models in Drug Development for MRSA

Andrea Marra